Help Please - java server pages hosting

[activewebs]

Hi Guys

We have a client who is looking for "java server pages" hosting, we have done some searching but would like to know if anyone in here has any experiance or can offer advice or even some jsp hosting ?.
is JSP, as we belive, some script language akin to PHP and ASP ?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Rich

[howard]

You are probably going to be looking at a dedicated server, Windows IIS, and a host like RackSpace.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coldfusion
Expensive.

[activewebs]

Hi Howard

Thanks for that, i've been digging and it can be done on coldfusion, but as you suggest it seems to be a dedicated server application, i understand that somthing called tomcat-apachie can be installed on unix/linux servers to handle JSP, but does anyone have any experiance of this, or point to any posible hosting companys ?

Rich

[howard]

Westhost used to have virtual private servers, but they are switching low end accounts over to shared and those with greater needs to dedicated servers. I used to be with them but didn't need all the features of the vps sphera configuration. I think there is a version of CF that runs on linux/apache servers. Might want to check out westhost. They have a very stong user forum, and their customer service is considered good. Webmasterworld used to be hosted there, but went over to rackspace a few years ago when there was a dns outage and they lacked redundancy in that department.

[webado]

Some shopping carts are hsoted on jsp platforms.

Also some large institutions (like governments) may have their websites on jsp platforms. I guess no open source stuff there.

Yeah, jsp is kind of like php and asp - only probably more mysterious. And expensive.

[JohnMark]

more mysterious, haha. The real mystery is who actually uses it haha

Cheers